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🗓️ 16 August 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Comedian David Alan Grier on the comedy of retirement in "The Cool Kids".
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0:00.0 | From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment. |
0:14.6 | Welcome to The Treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. I'm not one of the cool kids, but one of them is sitting across from me. |
0:19.7 | A guy who hasn't done this show for almost 20 years. |
0:22.8 | And to date, to date, he's still the only person to do this show who has ever been nominated |
0:27.4 | for a Tony for a show written by a film critic. |
0:31.7 | That show was the first. |
0:33.2 | Of course, I'm talking about David Allen Grigg, who's been nominated for a Tony since. |
0:36.1 | And also is probably, addition to that, the only person to have been directed by both David |
0:39.9 | Mamet and Adam Crolla in his career. |
0:42.5 | So you were... |
0:44.3 | Right and right again. |
0:45.8 | You were the first for a whole bunch of different reasons. |
0:48.2 | Well, isn't every successful black person still a first at something? |
0:52.7 | Probably a last in a lot of words. Unfortunately, yes, yes. |
0:56.2 | I.E. Barack Obama, first and last for a while. |
1:00.2 | Yes. Let us, let us, let us, let us, accept. |
1:03.7 | Let us pray, as they would say back to Detroit. |
1:05.3 | Yes, that too, that too. |
1:07.1 | I've got to ask you, so much to catch up with you a box has been so long, but the cool |
1:12.4 | kids is an interesting cast. It's you. It's the man who once played Blind Lemon Pledge, |
1:18.4 | Martin Mull, and the addition to everything else, the woman who gave us the night, the lights |
1:24.4 | went out in Georgia, Vicki Lawrence. What was that first meeting like for this? |
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